Comments on: A good trip gone bad. UP 4066 wasn’t feeling well, and 135 stalled on the climb to Campbellville. The decision was made to double the hill. So after about 4 hours, 7028 is doing most of the work dragging 10000 tons at about 25mph as Orr’s lake Hill’s .9% grade looms. Happily, for what must be an exhausted crew(yes, they did get a lift from a road foreman to save some walking, but so many hand brakes to tie on…and then take off), they made it up the hill out of the Grand River Valley, and all the way to London….where 7028 decided it was finished doing all the hard work and was rumoured to have a computer “meltdown” that put the rain in emergency…with no way to recover. Some days just go that way…..

Comments on: A good trip gone bad. UP 4066 wasn’t feeling well, and 135 stalled on the climb to Campbellville. The decision was made to double the hill. So after about 4 hours, 7028 is doing most of the work dragging 10000 tons at about 25mph as Orr’s lake Hill’s .9% grade looms. Happily, for what must be an exhausted crew(yes, they did get a lift from a road foreman to save some walking, but so many hand brakes to tie on…and then take off), they made it up the hill out of the Grand River Valley, and all the way to London….where 7028 decided it was finished doing all the hard work and was rumoured to have a computer “meltdown” that put the rain in emergency…with no way to recover. Some days just go that way….. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1